2005-2006
by John G. Bartlett
Designed to provide quick access to the standards with which to fight infectious disease by focusing on selection, proper doses, costs, and side effects of antimicrobial agents, the 2006 Pocket Book of Infectious Disease Therapy draws extensively from recommendations made by the Centers for Disease Control, the Medical Letter, the American Hospital Formulary Service, and the AMA's Drug Evaluations.
Tabular material has been updated to include all newly approved antibiotics, as well as new recommendations for management.
Contents
Antimicrobial Agents
- Preparations and recommended dosing regimens for antimicrobial agents
- preferred antimicrobial agents for specific pathogens
- Antimicrobial dosing regimens in renal failure
Adverse reactions to antimicrobial agents
- Drug interactions
Preventive Treatment
- Adult immunization schedule
- Prophylactic antibiotics in surgery
- Prevention of bacterial endocarditis
- Prevention of diseased associated with travel
Nonbacterial Infections
- Treatment of fungal infections
- Treatment of mycobacterial infections
- Drugs for treatment of parasitic infections
- Treatment of viral infections
Specific Infections
- Sepsis and sepsis syndrome
- Compromised host
- Toxic shock syndrome: case definition of CDC
- Group A streptococcal infections
- Anaerobic infections
- Fever of unknown origin
- Treatment of lyme disease and potential exposures
- Infections of epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue
- Deep serious soft tissue infections
- Bone joint infections
- Ocular and periocular infections
- Pulmonary infections
- Endocarditis
- Viral hepatitis
- Intra-abdominal sepsis: antibiotic selection
- Helicobacter pylori: treatament of peptic ulcer disease
- Infectious diarrhea
- Foodborne outbreaks
- Urinary tract infections
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Duration of antibiotic treatment
- Trade names of antimicrobial agents
Index
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